The early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum

by: Sidney John Hervon Herrtage

Publication date: 1879

Topics: Tales, Latin -- Translations into Middle English

Publisher: London : Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.

Collection: americana

Digitizing sponsor: Google

Book from the collections of: Harvard University

Language: Middle English; English

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

xxxi pages, 1 leaf, 563, [1] pages, 1 leaf : 22 cm

"Formerly edited by Sir Frederic Madden for the Roxburghe Club, and now re-edited from the MSS. in British Museum (Harl. 7333 & Addit. 9066) and University Library, Cambridge (Kk. 1-6)."

"The Gesta Romanorum in its original form is a collection of fictitious narratives in Latin ..."--Page viii

Includes index

Introduction -- Comparative table of MSS. -- Text no. I (70 stories from MS. Harl. 7333, with second versions from MS. Addit. 9066) -- Text no. II (66 stories from MS. Addit. 9066, with second versions from MS. Camb. Kk 1.6) -- Text no. III (8 stories from W. de Worde's edition) -- Notes and illustrations -- Appendix (Short notices of stories not found in the English versions) -- Glossary -- Index to tales in the English MSS

Includes bibliographical references and index

Notes

"Formerly edited by Sir Frederic Madden for the Roxburghe Club, and now re-edited from the MSS. in British Museum (Harl. 7333 & Addit. 9066) and University Library, Cambridge (Kk. 1-6)"

Addeddate: 2008-09-13 17:38:59

Associated-names: Herrtage, Sidney J. H. (Sidney John Hervon); British Library. Manuscript. Additional 9066; British Library. Manuscript. Harl. 7333; Cambridge University Library. Manuscript. Kk. 1.6